Wednesday, February 26, 2014

"Victory"?

Battle Of Oriskany

When I was 10, (1969) years old my parents purchased a World Book Encyclopedia. In the volume for the letter R was a entry on the American Revolutionary War. That entry described the various campaigns and battles of the Revolutionary War. Included was a description of the Saratoga campaign.

Monday, February 17, 2014

In 1957 Nevil Shute,
1899-1960, 1 published his novel about the after effects of nuclear war and the
immanent coming of human extinction in the aftermath.

The novel is in many
respects typical of the end of the world novel but in other respects it is not
typical. For one thing this novel is very bleak it ends quite emphatically with
the certainty of human extinction. There is in other words no hope of human
survival whatsoever.